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Featured Articles
- Rooted in Knowledge: How Plant Science Shapes Edible Landscapes WorldwideBy: Plantae CommunitySeptember 1, 2025Plant scientists often find themselves rethinking the boundaries between research and life experience. Understanding edible landscapes requires more read more...
- Inspiring Undergraduates to Get Into Plant ScienceBy: Plantae CommunityAugust 25, 2025Plant science is closely tied to our food, our environment, and even the fight against climate change. Yet, it is often overlooked by undergraduates read more...
- Embracing Curiosity: Advancing in Plant Science by Asking QuestionsBy: Plantae CommunityAugust 18, 2025In the rapidly changing field of plant science, where new technologies and interdisciplinary methods are transforming our understanding of plant read more...
Education
Plantae Presents – Fledgling Season: Sound Advice for ECRs Starting Out in Academia
By: Plantae CommunitySeptember 10, 2025Plantae Presents – Fledgling Season: Sound Advice for ECRs Starting Out in Academia Featuring Sunil K. Kenchanmane Raju and Howard S. Judelson read more...Tips for Making Successful Oral Presentations and Crafting Effective Slides
By: Plantae CommunityAugust 11, 2025As scientists, part of our job description is to promote, explain, and illustrate our work through presentations. But what makes oral presentations read more...Plantae Presents: The Role of Open Science and Data Sharing in Advancing Plant Research
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Careers
Adjusting to PhD Life
By: Plantae CommunityJuly 14, 2025Joining a PhD program is often seen as the next logical step after a master’s degree. However, the fundamental differences between the two are not read more...How to Manage Your Time Effectively as a Researcher
By: Plantae CommunityJune 30, 2025The Challenge of Doing It All The role of a researcher encompasses a wide range of demanding and often competing responsibilities, including read more...How to Prepare for Postdoc Applications and Interviews
By: Plantae CommunityJune 2, 2025Being a postdoc is an exciting career step, where you get to act as a researcher, but also sometimes a teacher, mentor, lab manager, project read more...
Research Insights
Review: Plant receptor-like kinases sense extrinsic and host-derived signals and shape the microbiome
By: Mary WilliamsSeptember 12, 2025Plant genomes contain hundreds of genes encoding receptor-like kinases (RLKs), which are membrane-spanning proteins with an extracellular perception read more...Discovery and engineering of synthetic RLKs
By: Mary WilliamsSeptember 12, 2025Receptor-like kinases (RLKs) are abundant genes that have diversified and expanded throughout plant evolution, with most plants having hundreds or read more...Identification of a plastid-localized amino acid transporter
By: Mary WilliamsSeptember 12, 2025Plastids are more than photosynthetic compartments, they also are responsible for the biosynthesis of nine proteinogenic amino acids (which explains read more...